At one stage, staff at King's Cross station in north London closed the entrance to the tube, preventing the majority of the EDL supporters gathered outside from travelling to the demonstration close to Aldgate tube for around half an hour. In the end around 1,000 people assembled near East London tube station – 10 minutes from the mosque – at what had been billed as a "static demonstration" to get around a 30-day ban on political marches imposed after the riots by the Home Secretary Theresa May.

The time has arrived where we must understand the realities of the dark forces amongst us.

Labor’s Demise As A Countervailing Power: "Labor Day" should be renamed "Corporation Day" or "War Day"

It is Labor Day weekend, 2011, but labor has nothing to celebrate. The jobs that once gave American workers a stake in capitalism have left and gone away.

Corporations in pursuit of near-term [maximum] profits have moved labor’s jobs to China, India, Indonesia, Taiwan, South Korea and Eastern Europe.

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The reason that nearly four years of economic stimulus, consisting of large federal budget deficits and near zero interest rates, hasn’t revived the economy is that the jobs that Americans once had have been moved offshore. Stimulus cannot put Americans back to work in jobs that have been given to foreign countries.

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Labor Day is an anachronism. It should be renamed Corporation Day or War Day

The time has arrived where we must understand the realities of the dark forces amongst us.

District attacked with hand grenades in Khost

Sep. 03–

A dozen of the NATO invaders and their puppets were reported dead when the enemy was attacked with hand grenades while the enemy was holding a meeting in Sheikh Ameer district of Khost province in Friday.